Duplicating memorandum-pad.



No. 630,|20. Patented Aug. I, I899.

C. P. SEARLES. DUPLICATING MEMORANDUM PAD.

(Application filed Mai. 20, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNrtien STATES ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES P. SEARLES, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL L.

BLACK, OF SAME PLACE.

DUPLICATING MEMORANDUM-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,120, dated August1, 1899.

Application filed March 20, 1899- Serial No. 709,727. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES P. SEARLEs,

a citizen of the United States, residing at C0- lumbus, in the county ofFranklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Duplicating Memorandum-Pads; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and-use the same.

The purpose of this invention more particularly is to provide animproved, simple, and easily manipulated pad or tablet for clerks inretail stores, where it is the practice to make on slips of paper twomemoranda of sales, one of which is sent to the cashier or wrapper andthe other handed the customer. The devices at present in vogue aresomewhat troublesome and time-consuming in use, because the two slipsupon which the niemoranda are made must be separately handled, so as toget them into proper relation and position to the carbon or duplicatingpaper.

My invention consists in the improved construction hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, in which I have shown one embodiment of myinvention, Figure 1 is an isometric perspective of the device ready foruse and for attachment to a button or other suitable device on a garmentof the user. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, on larger scale,of the box or pad alone. Fig. 3 is an isometric perspective showing theparts of the box or pad opened. Figs. 4 and 5 are front and sectionalviews, respectively, of the devices for attaching the box or pad to agarment of the user.

Like characters of reference in the several views designatecorresponding parts.

1 designates the box or receptacle for the double strip of paper 2 2.The box is furnished with alid or cover 3, hinged at one end to one endof the box. Hinged to the opposite end of the lid 3 is a rectangularwire frame 4:, having fastened on its free end a friction or tensiondevice consisting of a curved metallic spring 5, having attached to andstretched between its ends a flexible strap 5. The wire frame is capableof being folded against the inner side the cover or lid 3, as indicatedin Fig. 2. Journaled or supported in loops or bends l of the wire frame4: is a roller 6, over which the two plies of paper strip are passed,suflicient space between the said roller 6 and the end of the box beingprovided to permit the passage of the paper from the box. On one edge ofthe free end of the outer side of the cover is pivotally secured a bar7, upon which may be hung a slip of carbon or duplicating paper 8, theedge of the paper being looped and pasted, so that it may be slid ontoor off the said bar 7, as indicated in Fig. 3, and this bar 7 isconveniently so positioned that its free end may be sprung into, andtherefore removably held in, a notch 3 in a lip at the opposite edge ofthe cover. In practice the inner ply 2, as it comes off the roller, islaid flat on the cover itself, and upon this first ply the bar 7 and itscarbon or duplicating paper is turned to lie, and then upon the carbonor duplicating paper the outer ply is laid. In the initial arrangementof the paper it is drawn out sufficiently farto allow the ends of bothplies 2 to be taken with the fingers without at the same time taking theduplicating-paper. In order that the free ends of the paper shall beheld against the lid, 1 provide a gravity-roller 9, journaled inelongated inclined bearings formed in lips 3 near the hinged end of thecover. Byreason of the inclined bearings the roller tends constantly topress against the paper and hold it against the lid in either thehorizontal or using or the vertical or suspended'position of the box. Inthe instance shown the double paper strip 2 2 is folded in what might betermed zigzag form, thefolds being of such length that the package shallfit nicely in the box or receptacle, and in order that the free end maybe drawn from the receptacle without disturbing the remaining portion Ihave provided the tension device 5 5; but to attain this result moresatisfactorily I supplement the tension device with a roller or bar 10in the end of the box opposite the paper-exit end.

When the wire frame 4, carrying the tension device, is folded againstthe inner side of the cover and the cover is closed against the box,said cover may be held closed by means of an elastic strap 11, having atits ends small metallic clips 11*, one of which is permanently butslidably secured to the side parts of the wire frame 4, while the otheris removably hooked over the opposite part of the said wire frame 4after the strap has been drawn around the under side of the box. Thisstrap 11 very conveniently holds or assists in holding a card or slip ofpaper on the under side of the box, and upon this paper a record andreport of the days business may be made. The movable character of thestrap 11 makes easy the placing and taking off of this day card or slip.

Portable sales-slips, books, or pads are ordinarily attached or held tosome garment of the user, so as to not be easily lost or misplaced andto be immediately at hand when needed. In conjunction with my improvedsales-slip case I have therefore shown a convenient device for attachingit to the garment I of the user. This device comprises principally avfriction device formed of a frame 12, having at its lower end a pocketor receptacle for a spring, preferably a block of rubber 13, whichpresses a roller 14, journaled in elon gated bearings 12 (see Fig. 1) inthe sides of the frame 12, against or towardashoulder12 standing betweenthe sides of the frame above the roller. The roller and shoulder form afriction device, permitting the movement of the box or pad suspendingstrap 15, but holding such strap at any point to which it may beadjusted. The upper portion of the frame 12 is provided with an eye 12,enlarged at its lower end. In order that the friction device may besecurely attached to a garment, I providea device comprising a base 16,having a head or button 16 stamped or formed thereon, and a spring-clasp16 provided with an opening 16, so that the clasp may be sprung downover the head or button 16 and an interposed portionl? of a garment.When this has been done, the friction device, by means of the enlargedportion of the eye 12, may be placed upon the head or button 16 and thefriction device pulled down. The springclasp l6 presses outward againstthe friction device and holds it on the head or button 16.

A pencil may be attached to the free end of the strap by means of anelastic loop 18, attached to such end of the strap, as clearly indicatedin Fig. 1.

Many modifications of the details of construction herein shown anddescribed may be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

2 2 perforated at regular intervals or between each ticket, so that whenwritten upon they may be easily separated from the main package.

From the foregoing it will be observed that after the box or receptaclehas been once filled and the duplicating-strip properly arranged withrespect to the carbon-paper no further manipulation of the carbon orstrip is necessary except to pull the parts of the strips alone andsimultaneously out of the receptacle.

The friction device permits the portion of the strap suspending the pador box to be shortened when the pad is not in use.

The word duplicating as herein employed does not mean the making of twocopies, but of two or more, for it is obvious that more than two pliesmay constitute the 'strip upon which memoranda are made and thatadditional devices for holding carbonpapers may be added without theexercise of ingenuity; but more than two memoranda will rarely beneeded.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a duplicating memorandum-tablet or sales-ticket device, a box 1having a cover 3 hinged thereto at one end, a wire frame 4 carrying aspring-tension device hinged to the other end of said cover, and meansfor securing said cover closed upon'said box, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a duplicating memorandum-tablet or sales-ticket device, a box 1having a cover 3 hinged thereto-at one end, a wire frame 4 carrying aspring-tension device hinged ,to the other end of said cover, and astrap 11 slidably secured to said frame 4 to be passed around the underside of said box, substantially as and for the purposes explained.

3. In a duplicating memorandum-tablet or sales-ticket device, a box 1having a cover 3 hinged thereto at one end, a wire frame 4 carrying aspring-tension device, a roller 6 hinged to the other end of said cover,and means for securing said cover closed upon said box, substantially asshown and described.

4. In a duplicating memorandum-tablet or sales-ticket device, a box 1having a cover hinged thereto at one end, and a bar 7 to removabl-yreceive the carbon-paper hinged at one corner of said cover, and anotched lip 3 at the opposite corner of the same end of the cover intowhich the free end of said bar may be removably sprung, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I alfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES P. SEARLES.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. ALFRED, GEORGE M. FINOKEL.

